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gendarme

/ʒɒnˈdɑːm/US/ʒɑnˈdɑɹm/

gendarme noun: a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.

Noun

gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)

  1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
  2. A policeman.
    • The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170
    Synonyms:
    police officer
  3. A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
    • The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118
    • The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64

gendarme meaning in Urdu, Tagalog, Arabic and Persian

gendarme in Urdu

سپاہی

gendarme in Tagalog

member of the gendarmerie
hendarme

gendarme in Arabic

member of the gendarmerie
دَرَكِيّ darakiyy, جَنْدَرْم jandarm

gendarme in Persian

member of the gendarmerie
ژاندارم žândârm
More languagesFewer languages
gendarme in Vietnamese
sen đầm, hiến binh

Synonyms of gendarme

Forms of gendarme

pluralgendarmes
pluralgensdarmes

Origin of gendarme

Borrowed from French gendarme, a back-formation from gendarmes, from gens d'armes (“people of arms, armed people”), from gens + d' + armes.

Words formed from gendarme

Words that rhyme with gendarme

19 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about gendarme

What does gendarme mean?
Gendarme means a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
What is gendarme in Urdu?
Gendarme in Urdu is سپاہی. See Gendarme meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is gendarme?
Gendarme is a noun.
How do you pronounce gendarme?
Gendarme is pronounced /ʒɒnˈdɑːm/ (UK).
What is the plural of gendarme?
The plural of gendarme is gendarmes.

Words near gendarme in the dictionary

  1. gencos
  2. Gend.
  3. Gendall
  4. gendang
  5. gendangs
  6. gendarme
  7. gendarmerie
  8. gendarmeries
  9. gendarmery
  10. gendarmes
  11. gendarmish

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